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Barry-Unfit and in Need of Impeachment

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Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of politics, policy, news and opinion.
This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion section of the MetroWest Daily News. As such, our focus starts in the
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Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of politics, policy, news and opinion.
This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion section of the MetroWest Daily News. As such, our focus starts in the MetroWest/495 area and spreads from there to include Massachusetts, the nation and the world. You'll also find here lots of cross-referencing to columns and editorials in the MetroWest Daily News.

The blog presents an opportunity for readers to comment directly and immediately on pieces that appear on the print pages.

Just about all of my law practice in Idaho and Colorado is military-based, and it never ceases to amaze me that there is a yawning chasm between what the military says and does, and what Massachusetts liberals think happens in the US military. On a number of occasions on this blog, my client and friend Mark, who is career military, has chimed in about the growing sense within the United States Army that Barry is not fit or competent to be Commander in Chief of the military, based not only on his total unfamiliarity with this major American institution, but also based upon the lack of familiarity with this institution by his so-called advisers. Mark has pointed out that most of the Army establishment strenuously opposed the use of a commando force to kill bin Laden, which is why Barry has increasingly turned to Joint Task Forces to carry out the political dirty work of the civilian administration. Lately, what I’ve been hearing is that Barry should be consulting with Congress, because the Congress is chock full of people who really do understand the military, have served in it, and, as an institution, have a greater familiarity with military potential than the current regime. The fact that Barry elects not to consult with Congress as required by law, when he knows he lacks basic competence, further emphasizes the sense that Barry doesn’t care about the military or how much damage he does to the institution.

I’ve been told by a number of folks in the military that one of the worst kept secrets within the Army is that the United States Army has been shooting deserters throughout its entire history, regardless of the apparent lack of courts martials. Exactly how many body-bags come back, with one bullet wound identified as “multiple trauma,” designed to protect the army from the impression of discontent, and to keep discipline, may never be known. But it seems that, maybe, perhaps, Barry is unaware of this, and has never put himself in a position to learn. But, maybe, had he consulted Congress, he might have had a different political perspective as to whether negotiating with terrorists to bring home a likely deserter was within the spirit and letter of American law and treaty, or simply a bad idea.

Barry is unfit to be commander in chief, as well as a liar, usurper and crook. The Constitution, which failed to recognize that not every president would be a George Washington, gives Barry the power to be commander in chief. But it is equally implied that he will exercise that power as defined by the Constitution and the law. Barry’s refusal to act in good faith with Congress, and to follow the law, and the constitution, is a high crime and misdemeanor. Impeachment is absolutely and constitutionally necessary to preserve the freedom and liberty that most, but apparently not the Democrats, cherish.